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Show HN: A tool to help people in social situations(spotthecue.com)

3 points by scamdrill 29 days ago | 2 comments

How do you tell an introverted engineer from an extroverted engineer? The extroverted engineer looks at your shoes when they're talking to you.

Well, I'm an engineer and I work with lots of other engineers. While that trope is not universal, I was motivated to build a tool to help people build up both social cue awareness and self-confidence.

So I built https://spotthecue.com

While I was building it and talking to families with members on the spectrum, I realized there was broader application to help people. Specifically with learning paths (focused learning, for example, on body language or digital communnications) and social stories (no quizes/questions, just what to expect going to the airport).

I've tried to set it up with minimal backend. All data is saved on your device unless you choose to signup.

I'd love your thoughts and feedback on how to improve and make this more useful. It's an area I'm passionate about and really want it to help people.

Right now it's 100% free... I'm considering options and open to feedback here as well. Would you pay for something like this?

josnatol 29 days ago |

Interesting idea and glad you mentioned for people on the spectrum too.

Are you working this solo or with a team, and how are your costs for hosting this? I can see it was mostly done with ClaudeCode (or something similar) as the design patterns are 100% AI, which is fine, but means there are limitations.

Have you talked to any users to see if the exercises are legit helpful? Or did you talk with therapists about exercises? or was this mainly AI driven guess work? No shade, just wondering.

scamdrill 29 days ago | |

Thanks for the feedback.

On your questions. I'm doing this solo. I'm on a Vercel paid plan, so costs are reasonable (for now) but I've really only shown this to family and friends at this point, so the userbase is tiny.

I have a few family members and friends who are healthcare providers (including those with MD attached to their name) who have provided a lot of guidance. Our friend and family network also includes several with kids and adults on the spectrum, and we have sought out their advice/feedback. But as you surmised, I did rely on AI, specifically for generating all of the media (images/video clips) to fit various scenarios.

On whether the exercises are helpful -- that's exactly the type of data I would love to get, but the site is quite new. If you have ideas on how I can determine that I'd welcome it.